Women’s issues at UN: Still ‘too low down on the agenda’

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — This year’s U.N. General Assembly came as the world body prepared to commemorate a milestone in women’s rights: the 25th anniversary of the Beijing women’s conference that produced a global roadmap for gender equality. Women’s rights were a steady thread but hardly a top theme of leaders’ remarks at the assembly. Some leaders took time to recall the 1995 conference, detail domestic initiatives or lament that progress toward female equalit